“That red pill rabbit hole is no joke.” Takei Take Down No one — we repeat: no one — had a busier weekend than Elon Musk and his ever-feverish thumbs. Between getting booed off the stage during a Dave Chapelle show and still helming multiple companies, the Twitter CEO is still making plenty of time… Continue reading Beloved Actor George Takei Absolutely Skewers Elon Musk
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Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas, Facing US Criminal Charges
Disgraced crypto exec Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas and is facing US criminal charges, NBC News reports. According to the Royal Bahamas Police Force, the former FTX CEO was taken into custody in Nassau Monday evening and is expected to appear in court on Tuesday. “The Bahamas and the United States have… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas, Facing US Criminal Charges
Huge List of Celebs Accused of Taking Secret Payments to Shill Bored Apes
These are serious allegations. The other shoe, as they say, has dropped. A class action lawsuit is alleging that Yuga Labs — the company behind the wildly expensive, clout-driven Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection — conspired to inflate the worth of digital BAYC assets through a series of undisclosed celebrity endorsements, breaking a number… Continue reading Huge List of Celebs Accused of Taking Secret Payments to Shill Bored Apes
Dutch Startup Mining Bitcoin to Grow Tulips, and We Can’t Tell If They’re Joking
A startup in The Netherlands is using the heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs to grow tulips, Agence France-Press reports — and the sheer irony, given the historical context, is absolutely mind-numbing. In the 17th century, demand for tulips — yes, the flower — spiked so sharply in Amsterdam that prices rose to staggeringly high levels, in… Continue reading Dutch Startup Mining Bitcoin to Grow Tulips, and We Can’t Tell If They’re Joking
OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition
Turns out there’s one thing AI can’t do well… yet. Robo-Puns OpenAI’s text-generating ChatGPT may be really good at coming up with believable undergraduate-level essays, terrible fan fiction, and eyebrow-raising visions of a dystopian future. One area where ChatGPT is clearly coming up short, though? The dad joke department. It turns out that the algorithm is… Continue reading OpenAI ChatGPT Brutally Destroyed at Pun Competition
Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough
Researchers at the government-funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California claim to have made a massive breakthrough in the long-delayed pursuit of practical fusion energy. People involved in the research told The Financial Times that the team was able to get more energy out of a fusion reaction that they had to put in —… Continue reading Fusion Scientists Claim Net Energy Gain, in Potentially Huge Breakthrough
Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More
Sorry, iOS users. Genius Time Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, doesn’t know how stores work. Or, rather, he only just learned. The evidence: his recent “battle” with Apple, which Musk launched in part over his shock and dismay regarding Apple’s “secret” 30 percent cut at its App Store. (The… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More
Elon Musk Booed Off Stage in Incredibly Awkward Video
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk got booed by thousands of people at a Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco on Sunday night — which isn’t exactly surprising, considering that he’s been relentlessly courting controversy like it was going out of style. A Twitter account that shared the clip was mysteriously deleted, but a clip later… Continue reading Elon Musk Booed Off Stage in Incredibly Awkward Video
Scientists Have Created a “Vagina on a Chip”
Image by Getty Images A team of bioengineers have created a “vagina on a chip” to mimic key features of the vaginal microbiome, The New York Times reports. This simulated “organ chip,” made from donated vaginal cells, allows scientists to study the complex interactions between the vagina’s cells and fluids, as well as testing treatments… Continue reading Scientists Have Created a “Vagina on a Chip”
The FBI Says Apple’s New Encryption Is “Deeply Concerning”
It’s great for privacy — but terrible for cops. Wall to Wall Apple is planning on broadening its end-to-end data encryption services, closing a privacy loophole that previously allowed law enforcement to access a wide-reaching swath of data, including photos and messages, stored in user iCloud accounts. But while proponents of the change are applauding… Continue reading The FBI Says Apple’s New Encryption Is “Deeply Concerning”